PhD Candidate

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

Nijmegen, NL

2016–2020

• Planned and managed own PhD project and co-supervised intern project.
• Designed and ran multi-phase, in-lab and online experiments.
• Analysed complex datasets using (logistic) mixed effects models in R.

Graduate Research Assistant

Reading University

Reading, UK

2016

• Tested participants using EEG for a study on prospective memory.
• Transcribed narratives of Greek-English bilingual children.

Teacher of English

Mingiani-Prevyzi Foreign Language School

Serres, GR

2013-2014

• Developed and delivered lessons aimed at children aged 8-12.
• Created and graded assessments.

University of Reading

MSc in Language Sciences (Awarded distinction)

Reading, UK

2014–2015

• Conducted independent and collaborative research on bilingualism.

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

BA in English Language and Literature (1^st Class grade)

Thessaloniki, GR

2009–2013

• Undertook Erasmus exchange at Duisburg-Essen University.
• Conducted research project on the narratives of bilingual children.

Open Science Community Nijmegen

Co-founded local community advocating for open science. Event organiser, e.g. of a ReproducibiliTea journal club and content creator for website and newsletter.

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2018–2020

R-Ladies Nijmegen chapter

Co-founded local R-Ladies chapter with 300+ members, promoting gender diversity in the R community. See below for workshops.

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2018–2020

Open data & reproducibility: R Markdown, Dashboards, Binder

UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference 2020 (online).

Birmingham, UK

Jul 2020

Jointly developed (with Pablo Bernabeu) a workshop on reproducibility for cognitive linguists. I showed participants how to use Markdown and HTML in and outside R and highlighted the usefulness of Binders.

Reproducible analyses in R

IMPRS Conference 2020 (online).

Nijmegen, NL

Jun 2020

Developed a workshop for psycholinguists showing how to use R projects, GitHub, and Binder for reproducible analytical environments.

Key Practices for the Language Scientist

IMPRS Language Sciences

Nijmegen, NL

2020

Jointly developed (with Julia Egger) a mandatory 6-week course teaching openness on all parts of the research cycle to new PhD students.

Towards reproducible science: Power analysis

R-Ladies Nijmegen

Nijmegen, NL

Jun 2019

Jointly developed (with Laurel Brehm and Marianne de Heer Kloots) a workshop on why and how to conduct power analyses using data simulations.

Open Science 101

IMPRS Language Sciences

Nijmegen, NL

2019

Jointly developed (with Julia Egger and Amie Fairs) a new 4-week course teaching the basics of Open Science to PhD students and post-docs.

R Markdown

R-Ladies Nijmegen

Nijmegen, NL

Oct 2018

Jointly developed (with Sara Iacozza) a workshop on creating reproducible reports with literate programming, in this case R Markdown.

Pint of Science NL

Organiser for 3-day science communication event bringing science into Nijmegen pubs. I helped with inviting speakers and audience engagement.

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2018–2020

Friday Lunch Talks

Organiser for fortnightly informal talks at the MPI Psycholinguistics. My duties included inviting speakers, designing flyers, and chairing sessions.

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2018–2019

Open Access Ambassador Conference

Organiser for two-day international conference on Open Access in Berlin, connecting stakeholders from academia, the public sector, and industry.

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Dec 2019

Alumni Career Event

Organiser for two-day event with 11 speakers on the topic “Discovering Possibilities in Academia & Beyond”. I was responsible for analysing and presenting data from a survey of MPI alumni and liasing with speakers.

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Oct 2019

IMPRS Introduction Days

Organiser for two-day event welcoming new graduate students. I invited speakers on science and academic culture and facilitated a discussion on PhD life covering topics like work-life balance and mental health.

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Sep 2019

Open science and early career researchers

Invited talk at the meeting of the Max Planck Society Social Science Libraries (online).

Nijmegen, NL

Oct 2020

Communicative intentions influence memory for conversations

Poster presented at the 26^th AMLaP conference (online).

Potsdam, DE

Sep 2020

Eirini Zormpa, Antje S. Meyer, & Laurel E. Brehm

Naming pictures slowly facilitates memory for their names

Poster presented at the 21^st ESCoP meeting.

Tenerife, ES

September 2019

Eirini Zormpa, Antje S. Meyer, & Laurel E. Brehm

The power of open science communities

Unconference session chaired at the 4^th SIPS Meeting.

Rotterdam, NL

Jul 2019

Stephan Heunis, Loek Brinkman, Antonio Schettino, Eirini Zormpa, Alexandra Sarafoglou, Olmo van der Akker

Publishing in science

Panelist at Synapsium 2018 conference.

Nijmegen, NL

Jun 2018

Slow naming of pictures facilitates memory for their names

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 26. doi:10.3758/s13423-019-01620-x

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2019

Eirini Zormpa, Antje S. Meyer, & Laurel E. Brehm

The production effect and the generation effect improve memory in picture naming

Memory 27. doi:10.1080/09658211.2018.1510966

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2019

Eirini Zormpa, Laurel E. Brehm, Renske S. Hoedemaker, & Antje S. Meyer